Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.

I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.

My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

We must honor our worthiness in order to receive what we want. In our society we are conditioned to believe that we are not worthy, and that it is even selfish to want to be able to attract things into our lives.

There is no need to be more - you are enough. Everybody is enough.

Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.

We have to overcome our societal conditioning which says we are unworthy.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

Most people settle because they don't like themselves enough.

Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It means that I accept myself, that I am not on trial in my own eyes, that I value and respect myself. This is not an act of indulgence but of courage.

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.